Tech Sprints Speed Runs: How to Validate your Ideas as Fast as Humanly Possible
Are you building products without knowing if anyone will use them? Does market validation seem to take forever? If so, then this post about how…
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Predicting Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Before a Prospect Becomes a Customer
How Car Salespeople Figure Out Your Value to Them Have you ever noticed how car sales professionals try to estimate your financial worth with small…
3 Secret Strategies for Superpowered Facebook Marketing via Customer Lifetime Value
Are you finding it increasingly more expensive to acquire customers on Facebook? Are the customers you acquire spending less and threatening your profitability? We’ve seen…
Clustering Messy Time Series
When clustering data, it can be challenging to handle time series data, especially when the series have differing lengths. As part of my PhD work…
3 Secret Strategies for Superpowered Facebook Marketing via Customer Lifetime Value
Are you finding it increasingly more expensive to acquire customers on Facebook? Are the customers you acquire spending less and threatening your profitability? We’ve seen…
Customer Lifetime Value Migration Over Time
Customer lifetime value (CLV) is not a static metric. It changes over time—sometimes dramatically—as you observe new data about a customer. At Retina, we analyze…
Goal-Driven Customer Segmentation
Customer segmentation is a powerful technique for understanding your customers. However, it can be tricky to successfully implement it in a business context. In this…
5 Steps to Build an Effective Data Science Team
I’ve built and run data teams at Paypal, Facebook, and now at Retina AI. In each of those roles, I’ve also been asked how to…
Serverless Principles by Example
Do you have server infrastructure pain? Are your engineers spending more time managing servers than they are enabling more business value? Are you paying for…
Data Science User Experience: Lost In Translation
If you ever get the chance to talk to a VP of Analytics or a Head of Data Science, you will find that most have…
An Inside Look at DataOps at Retina
How can DataOps help improve efficiency at an AI or machine learning company? At Retina, we follow several DataOps principles in order to empower our…